U.S. federal agencies work together to end HIV through two-way global and domestic learning and exchange

“Two-way learning is a deliberate commitment to exchange best practices and experiences gained during the implementation of policies, programs, new innovations and research in the implementation of national and global programs of fight against HIV/AIDS funded by the United States. » – Bi-directional global/national federal forum

We are proud to work with colleagues in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (NAPO), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Global Affairs, and the Office of National AIDS Policy. Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS (OIDP), and the Department of State’s Office of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD), implementing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ( PEPFAR)to bring together federal staff from 13 agencies and offices for two-way learning to share information, best practices, and new scientific knowledge for effective programs and policies. aimed at ending HIV globally and nationally.

We’d love to hear how you do two-way work in your own community. Please send us an email here. For more information about the U.S. government’s bidirectional global-domestic work on HIV, click here.

The U.S. government’s two-way work on HIV globally and domestically

Together this year we organized several events to support two-way working. In January, the Global-National Two-Way Learning Forum on HIV brought together more than 200 federal staff working in the United States and around the world in the areas of prevention, care and treatment, programs and HIV/AIDS research. The all-day virtual forum provided participants with an important opportunity to share innovations, best practices and lessons learned that may be applicable across borders, aligning National HIV/AIDS Strategy (PDF, 1.76 MB) and the PEPFAR five-year strategy (PDF, 17.7 MB) to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

The Forum began with opening remarks from Ms. Kaye Hayes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infectious Diseases and Director of IOPD at HHS, Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS , and Dr. Mamadi Yilla, PhD, Acting Deputy. Health Diplomacy Coordinator at the Office of Global Health Security and Diplomacy. The forum featured four technical sessions and smaller subgroup discussions on testing strategies, data optimization for programming, viral load suppression, retention in care and pre-exposure prophylaxis. There were also two sessions on broader topics, equity and key populations and community engagement.

Harold Phillips, NAPO Director, closed the day-long forum and outlined the federal staff’s goals:

1. Be prepared to answer “yes” adopt different and innovative thinking and be open to shared learning.
2. Continue two-way connections— between agencies, departments and countries, and continue to share resources, ideas and dialogues.
3. Accelerate efforts and responses to achieve the global goal of ending HIV. This goes beyond a whole-of-society approach to a whole-of-society approach to ending the HIV epidemic.

In August and November, national and global agencies hosted topic-specific webinars for their federal colleagues, sharing best practices for addressing mental health and health equity to end HIV.

A new resources page on HIV.gov has been launched to support bidirectional global-domestic HIV work within the United States Government (USG). The resource page aims to foster the exchange of best practices and collaboration among U.S. government agencies in their efforts to end HIV.

Once again, visit U.S. government’s two-way work on HIV globally and domesticallyto learn more.

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